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The Openuav Swarm Simulation Testbed: a Collaborative Design Studio for Field Robotics The OpenUAV Swarm Simulation Testbed: a Collaborative Design Studio for Field Robotics Harish Anand, Zhiang Chen, Jnaneshwar Das Abstract— In this paper, we showcase a multi-robot design data analysis [5, 6]. An example application of sUAS- studio where simulation containers are browser accessible based imaging technology in geology involves generating Lubuntu desktops. Our simulation testbed, based on ROS, orthomosaic of a region and estimating rock traits such Gazebo, PX4 flight stack has been developed to tackle higher- level challenging tasks such as mission planning, vision-based as diameter and orientation. To extend such UAS based problems, collision avoidance and multi-robot coordination for sampling methods to other domains, we need software tools Unpiloted Aircraft Systems (UAS). The new architecture is that help in algorithms development and testing. Single UAS built around TurboVNC and noVNC WebSockets technology, to based methods encounter limitations in tasks such as wide- seamlessly provide real-time web performance for 3D rendering area mapping, freight transportation, and cooperative search in a collaborative design tool. We have built upon our previous work that leveraged concurrent multi-UAS simulations, and and recovery. Therefore, there is a need for a simulation extended it to be useful for underwater, airship and ground framework that provides flight stack and communication vehicles. This opens up the possibility for both rigorous Monte network to develop efficient swarm algorithms. Carlo styled software testing of heterogeneous swarm sim- With our belief that hardware abstraction and end-to-end ulations, as well as sampling-based optimization of mission simulation tools will accelerate innovation and education, we parameters. The new OpenUAV architecture has native support for ROS, PX4 and QGroundControl. Two case studies in the have made the OpenUAV simulator to be globally accessible paper illustrate the development of UAS missions in the latest and easy to use. OpenUAV setup. The first example highlights the development of a visual-servoing technique for UAS descent on a target. II. RELATED WORK Second case study referred to as terrain relative navigation A rich ecosystem of tools exists for UAS hardware and (TRN) involves creating a reactive planner for UAS navigation by keeping a constant distance from the terrain. software development. With improved on board computa- tional and sensing capabilities, heterogeneous swarms of I. INTRODUCTION ground, aerial, and underwater vehicles will enable efficient With an increasing number of use-cases for unpiloted exploration missions leveraging diversity and heterogene- aircraft systems (UAS), the need for robust controllers and ity [7]. A variety of tools exist to support design and mission planning algorithms are far exceeding available engi- deployment of single as well as multi-robot systems. neer or scientist time. The AI community has demonstrated promising results in this arena by utilizing simulations to A. RotorS learn controllers, often from a model-based reference such RotorS [8] is a Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAV) Gazebo as a model-predictive controller. [1] In past years, model- [9] simulator developed by the Autonomous Systems Lab based techniques have successfully shown impressive aerial at ETH Zurich. It provides UAV models such as the AscTec robot capabilities like quick navigation through unknown Hummingbird, the AscTec Pelican, or the AscTec Firefly. environments. To achieve real autonomy in applications such There are sensors such as an inertial measurement unit as indoor or outdoor mapping, disaster response, sensor de- (IMU), odometry sensor and the visual-inertial-sensor, which ployment and environmental-monitoring, UAS software must can be mounted on these models.[10] RotorS provide virtual demonstrate a semantic understanding of the environment. machine images that have pre-installed rotorS packages for [2] [3] easy setup and access to the simulator. OpenUAV framework The OpenUAV testbed was developed to reduce the num- has goals that are very similar to rotorS. However, it provides ber of field trials and crashes of sUAS systems by implement- similar capabilities in a containerized desktop environment. ing a simulation environment that allows extensive testing The improved OpenUAV docker image has additional fea- and mission synthesis for a swarm of aircraft [4]. In this tures like remote web access to a desktop session, support paper, we describe improvements to this testbed, enabling for orchestration tools like Kubernetes and mission planning interactive use of cloud resources on a browser. In addition to software QGroundControl. aerial systems, OpenUAV framework can model underwater and ground vehicles. B. FlightGoggles There is a growing demand for sUAS-based imaging FlightGoggles [11] is capable of simulating a virtual- technology to provide high resolution spatial context for reality environment around autonomous vehicle(s) in flight. When a vehicle is simulated in FlightGoggles, the sen- *This work was supported by NSF award CNS-1521617 Authors are with the School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ sor measurements are synthetically rendered in real time USA hanand4,zchen256,[email protected] while the vehicle vibrations and unsteady aerodynamics Fig. 1: Example of simultaneously accessing OpenUAV simulation containers. On the left web browser, we have an OpenUAV container with ID 9 accessible over the url term-9.openuas.us. Term-9 is executing a multi-UAV leader follower simulation. On the right web browser, we have a similar OpenUAV container with ID 6 accessible over the url term-6. openuas.us. Term-6 demonstrates a single UAV system controlled using QGroundControl which is running inside the container. are captured from the natural interactions of the vehicle. C. AirSim FlightGoggles’ real time photorealistic rendering of the en- AirSim is an open-source, cross-platform simulator built vironment is produced using the Unity game engine. The on Unreal Engine that offers visually realistic simulations exceptional advantage of FlightGoggles framework is the for drones and cars. [12] It supports hardware in the loop combination of real physics with the Unity based rendering simulations with flight controllers like PX4 and support of the environment for exteroceptive sensors. for popular protocols (e.g. MavLink). AirSim provides a Photorealism is an influential component for developing realistic rendering of scene objects such as trees, lakes and autonomous flight controllers in outdoor environments. Tra- electric poles. AirSim approach is useful for developing ditional robotics simulators employ a graphics rendering perception algorithms, especially in outdoor environments. engine along with the physics engine. Gazebo uses Object- One of the goals of OpenUAV system is to have minimum Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine (OGRE) and Open code changes when transitioning from simulation experiment Dynamics Engine or Bullet physics engine. Scenes rendered to field trials. Although Gazebo simulator is not capable of using Unity are photorealistic because they provide the art photorealistic rendering, it has the advantage of a straightfor- assets, material properties like shadows, specularity, emissiv- ward simulation description format to create general robots ity, shaders and textures to fine-tune scene objects to be more like manipulator arms or legged robots. Future versions realistic. Besides object enhancements, Unity has algorithms of OpenUAV hopes to utilize concepts from game engines for occlusion culling which disables rendering of objects that like Unity and Unreal Engine to generate visually realistic are not currently seen by the camera. Here, we realize a simulations. need in Gazebo to develop a photorealism layer between the physics and rendering engine to supplement computer III. DESIGN GOALS vision algorithms in robotics simulation. Future versions of OpenUAV is an on-premise, and cloud framework for OpenUAV hopes to provide an option to integrate with the developing dynamic controllers and swarm algorithms for game engines to create photorealistic renderings. UAS, remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROV), and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV). OpenUAV utilizes the docker container technology that replaces the tedious installation of simulation and flight control software with its dependencies, by having to download a single pre-built ready-to-run image in Linux machines. [13] OpenUAV sim- ulation containers are built with a fast and lightweight oper- ating system Lubuntu with necessary flight control software, communication protocols and mission planning software. Figure 1 shows a demo of single and multi UAS scenarios in OpenUAV framework. Currently, to develop UAS software or conduct field exper- iments, the developer or researcher starts with the simulation and then moves to real robots. For simulation, they usually Fig. 2: OpenUAV container has simulation software such as work using the popular robotics tools like Gazebo, ROS Gazebo, ROS and RViz. In addition to that, it has support and flight stack such as PX4 and QGroundControl. The re- for flight stack like PX4 and mission planning software like searcher would realize the need for GPU enabled machine to QGroundControl. Softwares like TurboVNC, NoVNC and render the visualization from Gazebo. An apparent difficulty SSHFS are added to create interactive containers. they face is to be always at the GPU enabled computer to work on the simulation. This approach also indirectly
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